On Oct 1, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Danny Mayer wrote:
> Adam Tkac wrote:
>> Well it is quite different if you create per-interface bindings or  
>> bind(2)
>> to INADDR_ANY.
>>
>> If you create per-interface bindings and you create new network  
>> interface
>> BIND can't see it and use it (not sure if rndc reload/reconfig helps,
>> I haven't test it yet).
>>
>
> BIND9 has no problem with seeing new interfaces. You don't need rndc  
> for
> that, it's quite automatic. You can use interface-interval to adjust  
> the
> frequency of the checking.

Only if named is running as root. As any other user, it doesn't have  
the right to bind to port 53; therefore, any interface that appears  
after named drops privileges is unavailable. (You might be able to  
work around this on Linux by setting capabilities [libcap2].)

Chris Buxton
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